Tens of thousands of photographs showing the Syrian government’s
torture, murder, and mass starvation of civilians in custody are
evidence of the kind of systematic atrocities not seen since Hitler’s
Nazi regime exterminated millions during World War II, according to the
State Department’s top war crimes official.

Stephen Rapp, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for War Crimes and director of the Officeof
Global Criminal Justice, has reviewed large sections of a huge
collection of photos and written records of Syrian government atrocities
smuggled out of the country by a former military photographer known as
“Caesar.” Rapp spoke about the evidence at a July 3 event at the
Atlantic Council in Washington.